Manufacturing Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for leading all operational functions within a large, high-volume manufacturing facility, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality production in alignment with the ASD Lean Operating System.

This role owns the plant's Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Cash, (SPQDCC) performance and serves as the senior operational leader for a site with multiple value streams, high throughput, and significant intercompany transfers.

The Plant Manager provides enterprise-level leadership, aligning Focus Factory Managers, support functions, and front-line teams to deliver sustained results at scale.

This role requires advanced capability in managing complexity, cross-site coordination, and large leadership teams while driving cultural transformation and performance excellence.


* Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.


* 12+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership, including multi-value stream or large-site management.


* Proven ability to deliver SPQDCC results in a high-complexity manufacturing environment.


* Advanced Lean, TPM, and CI leadership capability.


* Strong financial acumen managing large budgets and capital portfolios.


* Ability to support extended-hour operations and enterprise travel.



* Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred.


* 12+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership, including multi-value stream or large-site management.


* Proven ability to deliver SPQDCC results in a high-complexity manufacturing environment.


* Advanced Lean, TPM, and CI leadership capability.


* Strong financial acumen managing large budgets and capital portfolios.


* Ability to support extended-hour operations and enterprise travel.

Core Responsibilities

1.

Strategic Leadership & Plant Management


* Provide overall leadership for all plant operations, including EHS, manufacturing, materials, maintenance, quality, and engineering across multiple production areas or value streams.


* Translate corporate objectives into actionable plant strategies supporting high sales volume, throughput demands, and intercompany transfer requirements.


* Drive execution of the ASD Lean Operating System at scale, ensuring consistency across value streams, shifts, and support functions.


* Serve as the primary interface between the facility, enterprise leadership, and peer plant managers on network-wide capacity, transfer, and load-balancing decisions.


* Develop and manage a complex operating budget, balancing productivity, cost, working capital, and capital investment priorities.

2.

Safety & Environmental Stewardship


* Establish and sustain a Zero Harm culture across a large employee population and multi-shift operation.


* Lead visible safety engagement through routine Gemba walks, Tier escalation, and executive-level incident reviews.


* Ensure full regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, local) while proactively managing risk in a high-c...